The NAGPRA’s main issue is that people finding these items and selling sacred artifacts of Native Americas. That is why the congress pass the NAGPRA act. “In 1990 Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This act requires a number of institutions, such as museums, federal agencies, and universities, to inventory certain categories of human remains and associated funerary objects. Culturally affiliated tribes are then to be notified of these remains and objects so that they can be reclaimed by the tribes” ("Native American Netroots"). After receiving the inventory, that we will make, the NAGPRA Indians by law will be allowed to label what is sacred to them and what is not. American Indian groups with
